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Such development formed part of the suburban expansion reshaping the American West. In his meticulously composed images, Adams presented a critical view of this new habitat with its barren dirt plots, identical, boxy buildings and the isolation of residents from nature. A sublime landscape is transformed, as urban sprawl becomes the picturesque norm.\n\nGelatin silver prints\r\nMuseum nos. PH.951, 952-1978","date":{"text":"2025","earliest":"2025-01-01","latest":"2025-12-31"}},{"text":"During the late 1960s, Adams began to photograph the tract housing being built in the mountains near his home in Colorado. Such development formed part of the suburban expansion reshaping the American West. In his meticulously composed images, Adams presented a critical view of this new habitat with its barren dirt plots, monotonous, boxy buildings and the isolation of residents from nature. A sublime landscape is transformed, as urban sprawl becomes the picturesque norm.\n\nAdams’s photographs of new towns subtly explore the contrast between nature and man-made structures. The images do not encourage judgements but suggest an uneasy coexistence. Photographed in the harsh light of the American West, the classical simplicity of the images illustrates Adams’s visual sense of fairness. Mountains and suburbs are treated with equal gravity and respect. ","date":{"text":"21/11/2012","earliest":"2012-11-21","latest":"2012-11-21"}},{"text":"Gallery 100, ‘History of photography’, 2012-2013, label texts :\r\n\r\nRobert Adams (born 1937)\r\n‘Newly Occupied Tract Houses, Colorado’\r\n‘Outdoor Theatre and Cheyenne Mountain’\r\n1968\r\n\r\nAdams’s photographs explore the contrast\r\nbetween nature and man-made structures. The\r\nimages do not encourage judgements but suggest\r\nan uneasy coexistence. 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